Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They mistakenly believe they have got a God given right to survive and prosper , regardless of the state of the nation , the latest jobs crisis or more mundane matters like League standing . |
| 2 | They picture women gathered together to dance or perform some apparently ritualistic act of worship . |
| 3 | Everywhere French flags were ripped in half and trampled on and great gangs of young soldiers joined together to shout and curse the very name of France . |
| 4 | Superposition is of the essence of waves , which can be added together to reinforce or cancel each other out . |
| 5 | Three artists have come together to paint and teach in an idyllic setting in West Sussex . |
| 6 | Someone must have come indoors to turn that light on . |
| 7 | A crowd had come then to stare and cheer and lay bets — with the man Randall . |
| 8 | I would just like to say , record our thanks to those who are retiring , and to welcome most warmly those who have come forward to serve and to propose the list , er , last , but certainly not least , our warmest thanks to Bronwyn and her colleagues in the voluntary services unit , for their ongoing and invaluable support to N C V O er , throughout the years . |
| 9 | Government backbenchers are expected to be present at all stages and though they are entitled to speak for half the time available on the floor of the House , in committee they are expected neither to speak nor to move amendments but simply to keep voting for the government 's proposals . |
| 10 | At once both prisoners were made forcibly to kneel and lower their heads . |
| 11 | What should happen if [ J. ] suffers an episode before then which should require ventilation to be applied mechanically to save or prolong his life ? |
| 12 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 13 | And who but two women like that would be pigheaded enough to try and run a restaurant there ? ’ |
| 14 | A significant focus for the controversy was the theatre , which , like the transvestite , was seen both to epitomize and to promote contemporary forces of disruption in and through its involvement with cross-dressing . |
| 15 | Morrison 's solicitor commented that the decision was ‘ outrageous ’ , and that an appeal would be lodged immediately to try and save the two-and-a-half-year-old dog . |
| 16 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 17 | Prepared either to swim or play tennis , she packed her shoes and racket , towel and suit and a pair of shorts and a shirt . |
| 18 | It is presented primarily to inform and stimulate debate and it therefore adopts a style which is unusual in this journal . |
| 19 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 20 | The objective of this research is to produce PROBS , a shorthand notation which can be used economically to record and analyse both the interpersonal and intrapersonal intellectual transactions which take place in classrooms where problem solving is taught . |
| 21 | NAG has been used extensively to identify and monitor potentially nephrotoxic drugs , its excretion increases in a dose dependent manner following the ingestion of aspirin and sodium salicylate and high concentrations are found in patients with established analgesic nephropathy . |
| 22 | have hunted , slain and carried away deer , hares , coneys , pheasants and partridges … threatening the King 's officers in life and limb , so that they … for a long while have not dared openly to pass and do their business there . |
| 23 | Several methods were used both to promote and to check on data quality . |
| 24 | These interviews were to be used partly to obtain or confirm information about the sufferer but also to examine the carer 's own contribution to the care of the sufferer ; his or her physical and emotional well-being ; feelings about or attitudes to the sufferer , towards his/her own involvement , and towards the sufferer 's continued residence in the community . |
| 25 | The therapeutic centre may be used typically to observe and monitor families which are not functioning well and to teach adequate parenting skills where these are lacking . |
| 26 | That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ; |
| 27 | A man used regularly to come and take the shit away , Victorine had explained . |
| 28 | The FRG and the USSR have agreed considerably to develop and deepen their bilateral co-operation , especially in the economic , industrial and scientific-technological sectors and in the sector of environmental protection … |
| 29 | Washing is prescribed both to prevent and sterilize infection . |
| 30 | There will be a need at some stage for an international agency large , influential and well staffed enough to oversee and monitor measures to reduce green-house gases and perhaps administer aid funds . |